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whoa xpac was sexually abused when he was a kid

http://www.tmz.com/2011/06/06/former-wwe-wrestler-x-pac-i-was-molested-as-a-kid/

X-Pac -- a.k.a. Sean Waltman -- took to his blog Monday to praise wrestling legend Mick Foley for the work he's been doing with the Rape Abuse & Incest Network ... especially because Sean himself is a "survivor of repeated sexual abuse/molestation from about age 5 to around the age of 12."
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link to the blog entry
http://www.realxpac.com/foley-isnt-good-foley-is-great/55

he also shits on tna in the blog
. After all, the one thing TNA (I’m not even bothering to call them Impact for the rest of this blog, if ever) is rich in, is talent that can put on great matches in the ring. Keep shitting on your fan base and your talent TNA. You don’t deserve Mick Foley, or a lot of the other great guys you have there & one day you will simply exist in WWE’s vast tape library. Mick, you are too good for them & although WWE is far from perfect & it sucked doing commentary with Vince yelling in your ear, you are a future Hall of Fame’r & I would personally love to see you back there.
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ThreeSix said:
Christian still has a better chance of getting a major championship as a heel than Truth just because they've shown that Orton can be beaten in recent weeks. Truth's fate is set in stone though.
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Yeah. It wouldn't make any sense to put the title on a really hot heel who can keep people's interest. (I mean from the WWE's perspective, not your's)

Eh, maybe it's better for Truth if he doesn't get the belt. They botched Miz's title run pretty much the entire time he held it, so I don't see why they would be able to figure out how to make Truth look good with the thing.
 
ThreeSix said:
If any of us were in charge of the booking, the company would be bankrupt within a month. Good thing they've given us such great examples of how it's supposed to be done up to this point.
It's gotten better since Mania.
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Booking can't get any worse than it is now. They're barely one step above TNA with their ridiculous face and heel turns out of nowhere, storylines that make no sense and quality talent getting buried. The two redeeming qualities of WWE are R-Truth and Christian. Problem is, we all know they'll both be jobbed out to the supermen of their brand. And in the one instance that the heel will win the belt, he'll only keep it warm until said supermen get a rematch and it will revert.
 
Hey guys attended E3 this week and WWE 12 is garbage! do not buy it it looks bad and plays just as bad.

Support WWE All Stars!

Anyways i also got to meet the Miz and Hulk Hogan. Got an autograph and photo with the miz and got a t-shirt from hogan. Both were very nice but its obvious that Hogan has become the character.

I am also attending Summerslam it will be my 1st WWE event can somebody tell me what to expect as far as when to get to the arena and parking n stuff
 
JdFoX187 said:
Booking can't get any worse than it is now. They're barely one step above TNA with their ridiculous face and heel turns out of nowhere, storylines that make no sense and quality talent getting buried. The two redeeming qualities of WWE are R-Truth and Christian. Problem is, we all know they'll both be jobbed out to the supermen of their brand. And in the one instance that the heel will win the belt, he'll only keep it warm until said supermen get a rematch and it will revert.
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You call out the "face and heel turns out of nowhere," but then praise R-Truth and Christian, two of the three guys that have turned recently. All the recent turns have been logical and planned.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
You call out the "face and heel turns out of nowhere," but then praise R-Truth and Christian, two of the three guys that have turned recently. All the recent turns have been logical and planned.
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Usos and Tamina switching roles. Ryder flip flopping. I know these are Superstars, but the point still stands.
 
Just out of interest are TNA doing anything with the whole Jersey Shore stuff or did they drop it - just flicking thriough Sky and found MTV Europe is doing the Geordie Shore. Being from the northeast it made me do the whole 'urrghh' and some how instantly remembered about that horrendous TNA angle.
 
Professor Beef said:
Still can't get over AJ's weird new entrance theme. Sounds way too much like an anime intro to me.
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AJ seems to like because it sounds like an anime intro.


@Nico_Brooks It reminds me of an anime opener so clearly I love it. Plus I really didn't want some saucy sexy diva music. So not me.
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Getting around to watching Smackdown, I like AJ's theme.

edit: Also something I caught earlier and I'm sure you all did, "Randy Orton isn't here tonight"

"Well Sheamus you will be fighting someone else who's ready to blow, Randy Orton"
 
HarryDemeanor said:
I just heard AJ's theme. I don't know man. I don't know.
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I give her props for being the degisnated Moe goddess that half the nation dont fucking understands because its "Too Provative for America" (Thanks Franco) but yall know how Vince is.

That, and she isnt as good as the Bella Twins. Thats saying something.
 
Shadowlink said:
Woah! I remember this shit! Did they actually give people the money or was it all planned? I heard that they rerecorded the winner's call before Raw which is why I'm wondering.
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There was a story in an old Observer about it...lemme dig it up. Anyone remember the approximate date of McMahon's Millions?

FOUND IT:
Even to Vince McMahon, $1 million is a lot of money, particularly if you are giving it away every week. But he’s rich enough that he can afford it. It seemed a high price to pay to try and jump-start ratings, and no doubt seemed higher when the ratings came in. The 6/9 Raw show, the first week McMahon gave away $1 million, drew a 3.03 rating and 4.59 million viewers.
It appeared McMahon had decided with the economy in the state it is, that being a one-man lottery was a key in trying to up the profile of a product that is not hurting except the prime numbers they internally look at and determine the mood of the company, the ratings, continue to slide. With no advertising beforehand, money being given away was also brought to house shows, with fans being picked out of the stands at the house shows in Redding and Stockton, CA, to be guest timekeepers and guest seconds, mostly picking out children and then giving them $200 each for their efforts. That’s a nice gesture. I don’t know that it encourages repeat ticket selling business when wrestling only comes to cities of that size every few years, but it makes for a cool moment at the shows.
On Raw, McMahon gave away $1 million total to eight different people, in making phone calls during the live show in Oakland, all of whom were watching the show and correctly answered “WWE Universe” as the password. The live crowd got up for it, reacting like they were at a game show, and not booing like some had feared they would due to long breaks in the wrestling event they had presumably originally paid to see. There didn’t appear to be any complaints after the show from those watching it live. The reaction we received afterwards was negative to the idea, because it wasn’t going to be a hit among hardcore wrestling fans. The idea sounded desperate in concept but in application, I was ambivalent about it. I thought, wrongly, it would slightly help ratings in week one, but mean little or nothing by the second or third week, but thought any increase would be artificial and not worth that kind of money.
There is a lot of fear of what will happen next and what McMahon’s reaction will be. Many considered the giveaway to be a bad sign, because it came off as so desperate at a time when they don’t need to be. When it didn’t work, the question is what desperate measures will be next. The expectation is numerous changes will be made, many at once, all abrupt, which in wrestling is also something WCW used to do without success.
The negative in my mind is that even if it did increase ratings over the 3.12 average of the prior four weeks, I also thought that it being the priority of the show would mean that the wrestlers and wrestling angles, which the show needs to get over, became secondary and that was my major qualm watching it. Reports from those who attended live weren’t negative on it, like they often are for intrusions like the live Diva Search segments most summers (which is why they went with it as short taped segments last year). The only negative feedback we got from Oakland were the people who saw the early TV commercials and thought they were going to be getting a second taping after the live show.
WWE planned to fly all eight winners to New York to do media with them, including a planned appearance on “The Today Show” (this hadn’t been announced at press time but it was being worked out) and attending a press conference. I suspect they were looking at praising the success of the contest by noting the number of people signing up, but everyone knew the goal was to jump the rating and it’s going to be difficult for anyone to label week one as anything but a failure.
There were clumsy moments on the live show, including McMahon evidently having trouble dialing the correct number. But every caller was watching Raw and all knew the password. They were lucky as the first caller was from 29 Palms, CA, and the odds on the West Coast is that people wouldn’t be seeing the show live because it airs on a three-hour tape delay unless you get a satellite feed. WWE did post the code on its web site for that purpose, but on Raw, none of this was addressed and the West Coast includes a sizeable percentage of the country’s population. An idea reader one of our readers, Chuck Langermann, came up with is that instead of having a code at the beginning of the show, they should change the code several times during the show. He noted that he got the code and then switched to watching a baseball game. If it was made clear the code would be changing regularly throughout the show, it would make sure that people don’t watch for five minutes. Then again, it really doesn’t matter because this didn’t bring in new viewers.
There was a great deal of hype leading to this show, and a gimmick like this is more likely to mean something in week one and tail off as opposed to catch steam weeks down the line. They are committed to doing it next week in Salt Lake City. For whatever it’s worth, there were those internally who before the rating came out tabbed the week two rating as the key ones because it would take a week for the word to get around. But now the question becomes how many weeks does Vince continue this. There is probably no point in continuing after next week.
The 6/23 show is a three-hour draft special, which traditionally does a well above average rating. But there is a question of this WWE audience as being a patterned audience because recent three-hour specials have seen, no matter how much it’s hyped, a large percentage of the usual audience forget about the time change. With the product from a TV standpoint flat, I don’t know that the draft in the summer as opposed to the spring is going to do a major increase.
If there is any solace, it’s that the Male 18-49 target number of a 3.01 rating was up 5% even though the rating itself dropped. That’s slightly up from what the show has been doing, and for all the talk of the success of the Elite XC show on CBS, this was a better number in that demo than a show that came in with far more mainstream hype.
McMahon, who has stressed this is coming from his own money, so as not to raise the potential ire of shareholders, who no doubt would be greatly second guessing the idea now.
It was a standard wrestling show, built around trying to promote HHH vs. John Cena as a major match as the Night of Champions main event. The key part of the show was the Highlight Reel segment where Chris Jericho made his long teased turn on Shawn Michaels, presumably setting up an IC title match in a very good angle, complete with Jericho throwing Michaels into the obscenely expensive Jeritron 2000, and it breaking, which for the older fans seemed to be to bring back memories of older fans to the famous angle where Michaels sent Marty Jannetty threw a window in his original heel turn. But when it was over, they all came across as secondary.
To me, the company’s ratings issues are a combination of things. First off, most TV show are down year-to-year due to different entertainment options. NBA ratings are up, and there has been competition with NBA games, but I really don’t believe you’re going to see WWE ratings change all that much when the playoffs are over. Essentially, they are paying for all those years where they took developmental for granted.
When developmental was stronger and more of a priority, you could bring in guys like Cena, Orton and Batista and even Kennedy, who has been on the main roster a couple of years now. There are no new headliners, and the even- Steven booking of mid-carders makes it exceedingly difficult for people to break out of the pack. The last guy to break out was Jeff Hardy, who is hardly new.
I think so much of the rebounding of arena business was kids coming to see Cena, and he feels less special now that he’s no longer the point man in the singles title picture. I wasn’t negative on HHH winning the title, since Cena was on top for so long and HHH hadn’t been champion for years. In this day and age, who is the champion isn’t nearly as important to business as in the past. But unless they have a hot new challenger, an HHH title reign seems flat. And there are no standouts in developmental like there were years ago when they were loaded with prospects.
It’s becoming more and more clear that the Florida Championship Wrestling concept is filled with problems. They are doing either one or two shows per week, with the regular Tuesday night stop at the Bourbon Street Night Club in New Port Richey. There is a lot of talk that this has become the new Deep South. They still haven’t fixed up the gym to where they can shoot television so guys have gotten no live-to-tape TV experience since OVW was dropped, and most of the Florida crew was either never in OVW, or left OVW long before they pulled out. If nothing else, they shouldn’t have dropped OVW until they had their ducks in a row here. So they’ve got something like 70 wrestlers, and with having to get so many in the ring on the few shows they have, wrestlers are getting limited ring time. The upside of Florida is so many of the wrestlers, both past and present, live there and can help teach.
If Vince earmarked the $2 million he’s for sure giving away, or let’s say $5 million for five weeks had this been a success, let’s say, he could have with the same money, recruited 25-50 genuine blue-chip athletes and trained them. No, not all will make it, but even if three to five do, you’ve got your new stars. When developmental and recruiting was a higher priority, that’s where Cena, Batista, Brock Lesnar, Shelton Benjamin, Orton all came from. Cena, Batista, Lesnar and Orton all became stars because they were hand-picked, and all survived the occasional rough spot. I used to constantly hear how Ken Doane was better at the same stage as Orton, and granted, he had personality issues that may have killed him, but look at the difference between how the two ended up and the difference was simply one was picked and the other wasn’t. For the most part, the ones who make it weren’t brought in, given Even-Steven booking, not put in the spotlight and told to get over on their own. Right now they are largely relying on guys from the indies, who are taught a different style and almost all don’t have the size and look, or sons of top level wrestlers.
They should have developmental programs probably in Ontario, Los Angeles and Tampa, rotate the talent so they learn more than one system and have experience at working in front of different types of fans before being put on the roster. Perhaps they should have put OVW as more of a priority because OVW at least had weekly television in place that wasn’t that expensive, and ran a regular schedule of shows, even if they didn’t draw much. It’s not like FCW today, where the rep is that with such few shows, the guys train and then go out and drink, and then you get the DUIs giving the company a black eye in the market.
WWE not wanting ownership of the territory, only the tapes, means that the local owners aren’t going to be quick to book the five shows per week necessary for a crew of 30 to get regular work (and for a crew of 70, it’s hopeless in one territory). Going from bar shows to Raw is something very few will be able to pull off successfully. Plus, unless they introduce new talent over weeks with video preview packages to build anticipation, fans are going to see the newcomers as bathroom breaks. To me one of the biggest problems is the inability to bring new people in as stars, because the company is carried by those at the top. For international, where they see the product infrequently, the top names are American superstars who don’t get stale.
For domestic, they run cities so infrequently they can draw just as WWE coming to town. But for ratings, you need to constantly introduce new stars to the top of the mix. Introducing new people as interchangeable prelim guys means nothing, because fans have been conditioned only to care about the stars. And they only consider people as stars when they, after being teased with stop-and-starts, are convinced the company isn’t going to pull the rug out from under someone getting his first push.

and

Vince McMahon wasn’t killed this year, but instead the Raw set collapsed on him and they did an attempted murder angle to end the 2008 draft show on 6/23 in San Antonio.
They made sure to go off the air noting he was breathing, but indicating his legs couldn’t move as parts of the stage collapsed, although it was clear nothing actually landed on him. It was, besides a new cliffhanger to attempt to build ratings, the end of the McMahons Millions angle after three weeks. Even though giving away the money didn’t move the ratings to the level they liked, using the lure of a $500,000 payoff at the end of the show to both finish the idea and use it to, at least in theory, get the maximum number of eyes watching the company’s next big angle at least made business sense. The fact that the payoff structure was changed the day before the show to building the $500,000 payoff instead of doing 12 smaller payoffs indicates the final decision to end it was only made a few days before the show, even though the plan of how to end it was said to be worked on ever since the ratings came back badly for the first week.
The idea was this angle is designed to shake up the business and improve ratings and web site hits like the McMahon death angle did last year. But it overshadowed the draft, which with major moves like Batista, HHH, Jeff Hardy, Jim Ross and Rey Mysterio, should have been left to stand on their own.
It was one year to the week of last year’s angle being scrapped due to Chris Benoit, on a three-hour special designed to be McMahon’s mock funeral. There was almost a weird apropos of that anniversary. One year ago, management swerved the wrestlers by not letting them know that Benoit had almost surely murdered his wife and son, and then doing the show, once again management kept everyone in the dark regarding the draft.
Presumably the angle will build to the payoff of “Who tried to kill Mr. McMahon,” the play-off of the 80s “Who shot J.R. (and because, no doubt, J.R. will likely be discussed as a payoff)”
 
I'm pretty sure this wasn't even posted here yet, but...

It has come to light that WWE NXT Redemption contestant Lucky Cannon (real name Jonathan Emminger) was arrested earlier this year in Florida for impersonating a police officer.

Emminger, 27, was arrested on the morning of February 28, 2011 in Hillsbourgh, Florida and charged with falsely personating a law enforcement official. He was booked into the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at 11:26 a.m. and subsequently released on $2,000 bail.

Emminger previously worked as a deputy sheriff for the Pinellas County Sheriff's Department in Pinellas County, Florida, which could explain how he was able portray himself as a member of police.

This information is coming out now because his mug shot was recently cataloged on Google Images, the most comprehensive image search on the web.
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Dunno if it was talked about but Skip Sheffield is having another surgery:

-- Skip Sheffield, who has been sidelined since breaking his leg and ankle on August 18, 2010 at a WWE live event in Honolulu, Hawaii, announced via Twitter that he will be undergoing another surgical procedure this Tuesday. He wrote, "Will be having a third surgery this Tuesday and it will be the last," Sheffield wrote. "There are a lot of people who are far worse off and this is all happening for a good reason. I wish I was back right now and doing what I love, but things are not right and they have to be fixed. I will be 100 percent very soon and back on WWE TV and I thank all of you for your support. I have kept my head held high and I cannot thank WWE enough for their support in this time. I have worked too hard too long to just give up and while it has been difficult it has only made me a stronger better person so please be patient and I will be back I promise."
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Hope he comes back soon.
 
Striker said:
That dude's moonsault at 7:39 lol!
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I think it was meant to be a moonsault corkscrewed into a 450, but back then Ricochet was a total botch machine - now he's one of the best high-flyers in the world (not as good as PAC though).
 
Dead Man Typing said:
Haven't posted in this thread yet and we're nearly half way through the month.
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I have, but not as much as normal. Not much to talk about nowadays. No more cool stuff after Cena/Orton became champs
 
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So TNA has a ppv tonight.

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-Sting vs. Mr. Anderson for the TNA Title.-They should get the title off Sting and give it to Mr. Anderson, because Sting doesn't do house shows and also can barely work a match. Of course TNA is most likely building Sting vs Hogan as the feud that's going to save the company so they'll probably have a match where Hogan wins the title lol.


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-Jeff Jarrett vs. Kurt Angle.-Finally after 9 or more months of this feud it is finally going to be over(I hope, they are touting it as the final match, but with TNA you never know)

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-Mickie James vs. Angelina Love for the TNA Knockouts Title.-Who cares? I don't even know who the champion is, but I'll go with Angelina Love to win.

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-James Storm and Alex Shelley vs. British Invasion for the TNA Tag Titles.-Most likely will be the best match on the show. These 4 should tear it up and I'm hoping for a British Invasion win. TNA has it in their minds to break up Beer Money so Roode can be a singles star, so it would make sense for a title loss, especially while he isn't there as either one could play off that and be the heel in the feud.

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-Abyss vs. Kazarian vs. Brian Kendrick in a three-way for the X Division Title.-I'm sure they are going to have Abyss win to continue to destroy the X division guys and show that they aren't on the same level as the big boys.

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-Bully Ray vs. A.J. Styles in a last man standing match.-I have no clue what's going on in this feud, but I'll go with Styles to win.

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-Crimson vs. Samoa Joe.-Supposedly they are trying to give Crimson a Goldberg type streak, but I'm not seeing nothing from the guy that would warrant that type of push. Joe is going to do the job to continue the Crimson streak.

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-Matt Morgan vs. Scott Steiner.-Horrible, I have no idea why these guys are fighting, but I assume Morgan would win even though he's horrible.
 
JdFoX187 said:
I've been the same. Product is just insanely boring right now, and I'm hardly even watching.
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It's a combination of having better things to do/more important things to do and a boring product. Not even Heel Truth or AJ's sudden debut piques my interest enough.

I'll be here for RAW and I guess I'll check the shitstorm that is the TNA PPV tonight.
 
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